happening even now so things will come out in due course and just be if we will really see but there will be new legislation introduced to the country for the protection of human dignity or the source of the harmony 3 value of that would that would that would make a change wouldn't because that's look at you know the way you've been handling trials and commissions the main reason the human rights council voted against you was that you've disrupted and impeded efforts to bring justice and accountability for all sides in the civil war that's the u.n. saying that they accuse you of him in trenching impunity for grave human rights violations and abuses by all sides this is not one of the hallmarks of your state isn't it. well it has nothing to do as you say because if you remember if you recall from 2009 to 2015 there were 3 commissions appointed to find out the way forward but unfortunately after 2015 none of these commissions could continue

function and now the president has appointed a commission of inquiry with the supreme court judge maintaining it misses the valance main gender balance in order to find answers to whether there are any issues to guiding accountability whether there are any issues regarding missing persons so give us time we need we have given them a time behavior when the banks you've had time to disrupt and impede the existing judicial processes this obstruction says the u.n. has taken the form of actually arresting some of the war crimes investigators and threatening others the un said one former chief of the criminal investigation division who led investigations into several key human rights cases was himself arrested and another nation for silver from the same division had to leave sri lanka because of threats immediately after the last presidential election and you tell me that's the way a democracy which you claim to have pursues justice doesn't look like it does. well

everything is in the media everything is in front of the commission a police inspector can leave for another country without taking up less than 12 hours it doesn't have to be stressing this particular sense. we want is our number one who says he was threatened you must not be part of a conspiracy all these and they will probably give me lots of money to do these things all these i know you don't know that mr secretary that's that's a sign of saying that inquiries are coming out all these things that is why i said it will come out with the talk in china in january last year your presidential commission investigating so-called political victimization of public officials began intervening to halt prosecutions including those of 2 former navy officers charged in relation to the disappearance of 11 people in 20082009

this intervening in judicial proceedings doesn't inspire public confidence does it so also this commission has intervened in favor of military intelligence officers interfered in other trials including by withholding documentary evidence threatening prosecutors with legal action running parallel and contradictory examinations all these are accusations by the united nations in other words you've been destroying any chance of a proper trial and bring proper accountability you've allowed suspects to go free you're not interested. in i will not comment on a presidential commission and that matter people of the court in the country they support the senate against that sense well i'm not in a position to comment on anything on that presidential commission on political be the right solution because it is a matter before the courts. well you may not want to comment on that the fact is that you have been freeing guilty people in march last year the president pardoned

a soldier convicted of massacring 8 civilians including children human rights watch said it showed your government's disregard for justice for the worst abuses mr secretary you pardon child killers the other no limits to which you won't sink you a child killer convicted child killer gets a presidential power pardon what kind of country living in well team do you know that 1500 ex econ beckons for pardon similarly without any trial did you know that the you know 459 child soldiers as young as 10 were not even considered as americans but considered as big of war and sent back to school to study with books and school bags and shoes right so we have done both so i can argue i can't comment on a decision made by the president to pardon

a person and the devious regime also pardon hardcore terrorists so these are things happening so it is not only like route i'm i come back to this you proud of living in a country where child killers are get presidential pardons you can't sing my i don't know man you're not you're not holding your own forces accountable the message that that sends to your armed forces is basically you can get away with anything count you if you can kill hills and if you don't kill children in cold blood you can get away with anything it is never like that we will never pardon anyone who is doing something wrong and the president is determined to make great and make someone accountable if a person has done anything wrong against the law a president will never ever. the side of a criminal never ever not just give him a presidential pardon mr secretary your civil war. presidential pardons are there in the world now we're not talking about the rest of the world we're talking about

sri lanka and about my why why you only see longer why you need you talk about one person well because then you don't represent our eyes of the world and talk to the rest of the world about what they do i mean talking to you about sorcery lanka does hypocrisy i mean you are talking about one person in our history it's asking you to account for the actions of your government it's as simple as that is just one person and we help our. 100. mr secretary your civil war may have ended more than 12 years ago but since your government isn't interested in accountability thousands of family members from all communities are still seeking justice and truth about the fate of their loved ones and your response to date has been to send state agents to harass and intimidate human rights defenders lawyers journalists social actors and victims of human rights abuses how does how hopeful is that to your declared aim of bringing reconciliation and the counter ability to your country how

helpful that is of this of missing person established according to this last run in 2015 and this of this is empowered appointments made by dint of the locations given given an action plan is requested and they have to produce the size as about sahara cement i'm asking you about the harassment your police continue only your police have continually harris to a member of the adversary advocacy group mothers of the disappeared one of them whose son was disappeared in 2009 told human rights watch that officers of the criminal investigation department continually questioned her about who's going to meetings who's going to give testimony in geneva what are they going to say what business is that of your criminal investigation division. well if there is an issue with a person they can always complain to the police and they can see progress from the judiciary and our judiciary is very independent and in this talk all areas is

mostly it is they're all natives who are the judges so this is these are only accusations very conveniently made without any substance why don't they make a complaint to the police they can make a complaint to the president they can make a complaint to the inspector general law police and they can make judicially perceiving without doing that you just complain and then you mentioned about human rights defenders we know most of the human brain defenders are receiving money from the west and we know the bank accounts we know how much money has come and gone so these are not born of being the human race defenders they are playing to the sound none of them you just smear the whole lot of them in one sentence is that really what you want to do you don't have. as a smear a whole raft of your society defending human rights. we are very much interested in human great nor one else is interested in human rates than sri lankans and sri lanka that is

a fact no i mean president about human race and we concierge and then sri lankans in sri lanka what wedo long is your human rights record is criticize you deny everything mr secretary the u.n. insists that you address these criticisms some of which we've talked about during this interview and it also holds out the threat that member states might start applying targeted sanctions asset freezes and travel bans against your state officials and others credibly alleged to have been involved in human rights violations are you ready for that. well you know if individual countries have a separate agenda not necessarily human race but using human rights as a better plan there's very little we can do but let's wait and see i mean we also have support from a large number of countries it was evident in the human rights commission proceedings in the beginning when the report was submitted 21 countries spoke against the human rights commission erst report and in the preceding discussions

there were a lot of opposition to this of course the warding they got 22 but even they got one word less than the last time 2014 and there were a large number of absentees that is 14 so this world is divided so you are coming from some very very very quickly as we're running out of time are you going to take note of these criticisms or are you going to stick to your blanket denials which no one believes where there we have gone away or not we are going to continue with the plagiarist that we have made to the international community to find answers or in consultation missing persons we are going and accountability we are going to find answers through a domestic mckenney some as quickly as we can we do shed of it from the responsibility to the international community more than that to the ok well of this country we've run out of time john on earth column by again thank you very much for being on conflict zone. thank you.

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